Word: agent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...agent selected for this exploration was Dr. Martin R. Edwards, one of the young men who had from the first felt a strong interest in the undertaking. Money was raised to defray Dr. Edwards's expenses; and he devoted seven months to diligent inquiries and observations in the chief cities of China, and especially among the medical missionaries and practitioners already established there...
...interstate commerce by regulation: the Sherman Anti-Trust Law of 1890, on the other hand, is an attempt to control interstate commerce by preventing combinations in restraint of trade, and up to the present time it has not been successful. The United States under the law can control the agent but cannot control the interstate commerce that the agent engages in, the latter being under state control. The remedy for the present unsatisfactory conditions is to put the agent and its business under the same control, namely, that of the federal government...
...appointment of the Co-operative Society as official purchasing agent for the University is worthy of comment. The saving in cost and convenience which this new move should effect is shown by the fact that during the year 1909-10 the different officers and departments of the University used more than eighteen thousand dollars' worth of stationery, and purchased this from no fewer than sixty-seven different stores in Boston and Cambridge...
...last meeting the Corporation voted to appoint the Harvard Co-operative Society official purchasing agent for the University as respects all branches of merchandise in which the Co-operative now carries on business. This will include all stationery and related supplies required by the University in its various laboratories, offices, and departments. Heretofore it has been the custom of the various departments and officers to secure their supplies directly from retailers chiefly in Cambridge or Boston. This system has not only fostered great variations in quality and price, but it has been the source of some inconvenience to the various...
...Elliott became general freight agent for the four roads of the Burlington system and five years later he was advanced to the general managership of the system. Since 1903 he has been in his present position...